Adorable and easy chicken pattern weights

These fabric chickens are an adorable way to keep your sewing patterns or fabrics from moving! Make your own DIY pattern weights in just a few minutes with this chicken pattern! Such an easy project and great scrap busters!

Chicken Pattern weights

DIY pattern weights

If you’re looking for sewing crafts for beginners, these cute fabric pattern weights are great! Also a nice way to use up some of the fabric scraps you have left from old sewing projects (these keep piling up, right?). These little chicken fabric weights are also wonderful to display around the house or you could drop some essential oils on the filling and use them as fresheners for your house, drawers or even your car.

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Fabric chickens

Why use plain looking store bought pattern weights (or washers)? With this chicken pattern you could whip up a bunch of lovely pattern weights in less than half an hour and offer them as gifts to friends and family. Particularly useful for friends who love sewing, they’ll simply adore these gifts! These cute fabric chickens are great sewing crafts for beginners and just perfect for skipping pins when tracing sewing patterns!

I used my triangle weights tutorial as a starting point to make this chicken pattern and I even used the same fabric so I can use all of these pattern weights together. They’re so darn cute, I keep my fabric weights for sewing displayed on my window in my sewing space, right in front of the sewing machine; very handy and pretty to look at! And crazy easy to make, check out the easy tutorial below! It takes about 10-15 minutes to sew one of these pretty pattern weights up up! Perfect to whip up for the Easter season, these adorable sewing weights make great gifts too!

Chicken Pattern

Fabric Weights

Materials:

  • cotton fabric 2 pieces of 4″ x 4″
  • red fleece for comb and lobe
  • yellow foam sheets for beak (I didn’t have any yellow fabric so I used foam sheets. I love it so much! It’s so useful in so many projects, both sewing and crafts. If you have yellow fabric available, interface it first to make it a little stiff)
  • fabric scissors or rotary cutter
  • sewing mat
  • craft scissors to cut the paper
  • ruler
  • fabric marker
  • rice, crushed walnuts or barley for filling
  • sewing machine
  • matching thread

Directions:

  • Place one piece of fabric right side up and arrange the comb, lobe and beak towards the inside. Comb goes near the top, beak on the right hand side and lobe right under the beak.
  • Place the second strip of fabric right side down and pin or clip the sides and the top.
  • Sew down the sides and the top, leaving the bottom open. The seam allowance would be 1/4″.
  • Turn fabrics right side out (RSO) and press.
  • Turn the bottom in and press.
  • Meet the side seams and press gently (this is to create the triangle shape)
  • Fill the chicken with rice, walnuts or barley. Use a small funnel to pour.
  • Hand stitch the bottom with a ladder stitch.

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Chicken pattern weights

These fabric chickens are an adorable way to keep your sewing patterns or fabrics from moving!
Prep Time5 minutes
Active Time10 minutes
Total Time15 minutes
Category: Sewing
Region: International
Keyword: chicken pattern, fabric weights, pattern weights
Yields: 1 chicken
Author: Petro Neagu

Materials

  • cotton fabric 2 pieces of 4″ x 4″
  • red fleece for comb and lobe
  • yellow foam sheets for beak If you have yellow fabric available, interface it first to make it a little stiff

Tools

  • fabric scissors
  • craft scissors to cut the paper
  • ruler
  • rice, crushed walnuts or barley for filling
  • matching thread

Instructions

  • Place one fabric strip right side up and arrange the comb, lobe and beak towards the inside. Comb goes near the top, beak on the right hand side and lobe right under the beak.
  • Place the second strip of fabric right side down and pin the sides and the top.
  • Sew down the sides and the top, leaving the bottom open.
  • Turn fabrics right side out (RSO) and press.
  • Turn the bottom in and press.
  • Meet the side seams and press gently (this is to create the triangle shape)
  • Fill the chicken with rice, walnuts or barley.
  • Hand stitch the bottom with a ladder stitch.
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11 Comments

  1. Laureen Romey says:

    do you have templates for the chicken pattern weights?

    1. Petro Neagu says:

      I don’t, Laureen. They’re so easy to make I didn’t feel like there would be a need for templates.

  2. Where do you get the PDF Pattern for this chick and weights tutorial I could not find it anywhere. Please they are so cute I’ll pay to thank you G Hill

    1. Hi Ghill. There’s no specific pattern, just the step by step tutorial as you need 2 squares of fabric to make this project. The beak, the wattle and the comb are also very easy to draw or cut yourself from small scraps.

  3. So cute and easy! Great simple instructions too! I can’t “weight” to make some! 😉

    1. I see what you did there, genius! :) These are super adorable and so easy! I had some for years and plan on making more as they’re super useful!

  4. julie pendergrass says:

    I tried to download the free chicken weight pattern. however, i could not download without compromising the security of my computer. Is there any other way to get the pattern?

    1. Julie, my patterns are PDF files & don’t have viruses. Plus there’s absolutely no way my chicken weights would compromise any security settings as there is no pattern to download! You just cut a square in the size you want, then follow the instructions in this tutorial.

  5. Glenda Hyde says:

    I made some of these a while back and one of my grandsons claimed them , so when he visits on every other weekend he sleeps with it on his pillow . Very easy to make and so cute . Sewing is my passion .I have 7 grandkids .So I am getting old . They range from 16 ,15 ,14 ,13 & 9 & 2 .Thank You – Enjoyed reading email .

    1. Aww, so happy to hear your grandson loved these, Glenda! And you are so blessed, with such a big family! Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and comment! Have a wonderful afternoon!

  6. Amber Harrop says:

    These chickens are adorable Petro I love them